Proverbs 19:22

New International Version

What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.

2 Chronicles 6:8

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.

Job 17:5

If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.

Job 6:15

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Proverbs 19:1

Better the poor whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:23

The fear of the Lord leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,